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(N0 Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. W. ROSENFIELD. INHALING AND VAPORIZING APPARATUS.

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W. W. ROSENPIELD.

INHALING AND VAPORIZING APPARATUS. No. 266,530. Patented 0011.24, 1882.

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Nrrae STATES \VILLIAM \V. ROSENFIELD, OF NENV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, TO THE PORTABLE HYGIENI O VAPOR AND: UISINFEOTOR COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

INHALING AND VAPORIZING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,530, dated October 24, 1882.

Application filed April 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: apparatus. Fig. 2 is a like view, showing the 50 Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. ROSEN- invention embodied in aslightlydifi'erent form, FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing and applied to an ordinary stationary washin the city of New York, county of New York, bowl, so as to form an inhaling as well as a and State of New York, have invented certain vaporizing apparatus. Fig. 3 is a like view,

new andusefulImprovementsin Inhaling and showing the vapor-generating apparatus 55 Vaporizing Appaatus, fully described and cated in a different position. Figs. 4 and 5 represented in the following specification and represent mod fications to be hereinafter rethe accompanying drawings, forming a part ferred to. 10 of the same. When it is desired that the apparatus shall It is frequently desirable, especially during be capable of medicating the vapor generated 60 or after sickness, to fumigate houses or rooms with either a solid or aliquid substance it will, for the purpose of purifying them and preventbe constructed as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. ing contagion. This can be most effectively Referring now particularly to Fig. 1, it will done by the use of a vapor tinetured with or be observed that the hot-water pipe commucarrying some disinfectant, as a vapor is the nicates through the flexible connection 1 with 6 only vehicle which is capable of carrying such a receptacle, 2, which in turn communicates disinfectant into all the parts and intertices of with the pipe 3, provided with a large numthe building or room. The same principle is her of small perforations, 4. The bottom of adopted in the treatmentoi'variousdiseasesthe receptacle 2 is closed b a screw-cap, 5,

suehascatarrh,diphtheria,and thelikewhere which, upon being removed, permits the solid 70 the patient is required to inhale a vapor consubstance with which the va-poris to be meditainingortinctured with some substance which cated to be placed in the receptacle, alter it is desired to apply to the diseased parts. which the cap is restored to position.

The presentinvention relates to an appa- To the upper end of the receptacle 2 there ratus which is designed and adapted to prois attached by means of a screwconnection, 6, 75 duceavapor for these and analogouspurposes, an air-chamber, 7, to the top oi which is atwhich shall be tinctured with or contain the tached a liquid-receptacle, 8, of a size equal disinfectant, or the substance possessing the to or somewhat smaller than the air-chamber.

3o medicinal property required. This vapor is Thetopofthe receptacleSis hermeticallysealed produced in the present invention by causing by means of the screw-cap J, or otherwise,said 80 hot water to com mingle or passin contact with top being provided with a small aperture, 10, such disinfectant or medicinal matter, and closed by a screw-cap, 11, which can be reihen converting the water so medicated into moved for the introduction of the liquid. The

vapor, which vapor can be inhaled or allowed passage between the air-chamber and the liqto permeate the house or room. The appaaid-receptacle is closed by a suitable stopper, 85 ratus by which this is accomplished is so con- 12, which is perforated to receive the seat 13 structed as to be capable of connection with of the valve 15 and the air-tube 14. The valve the hot-water spigot or cook of any ordinary 15 is operated by a rod, 16, which is screwbath-tub or stationary wash-bowl. threaded and extends through a nut formed The principal feature of the invention 0011- in. the cap 9, its passage being made air-tight 9o sists in an apparatusfor feedingliquids against by a suitable stuliing-box, 17. the pressure ofa column of liquid or gas; but NVhen the vapor is to he medicated with a the invention also embraces certain minor feasolid substance such substance will be placed tures of construction, both singly and in variin the receptacle 2, it being prevented from ous combinations, as will be hereinal'ter fully passing into the pipes 1 3 by the gauze lining 5 explained and pointed out. 18 of the receptacle, and the hot water will be in said drawings, Figurel is a sectional elepermitted to pass from the pipe 1 through the vation, showing the structure of the feeding receptacle into the pipe 3. In such passage some of the substance will be taken up by the water, which will thus become medicated. After passing into pipe 3, the Water will be forced outward through the small perforations 4 in a series of fine jets, which jets of water, upon coming into contact with the air,will be almost entirely converted into vapor. The vapor thus generated will of course be medicated with the substance contained in the water. Vapor can thus be readily produced in any desired quantity, and in almost any room of an ordinary house, and can be permitted to fill the room or even the entire house, when desired.

In Fig. 4 an apparatus is shown which is adapted to act with solids only, the air-chamber and liquid-receptacle being removed and the upper end of the receptacle 2 closed by a cap, 19. e

When the vapor produced is to be medicated with a liquid substance such substance will be placed in the receptacle 8, and the valve 15 will be raised to an extent sufficient to permit the liquid to flow out as fast as may be desired.

It will readily be seen that when the water is admitted into the receptacle 2 its head or pressure would cause it to rise and mingle with the liquid in the receptacle 8 were it not for the body of air confined in the chamber 7. This body of air, as it cannot escape, will, however, effectually prevent the rise of the water, and thus keep the liquid in the upper receptacle entirely isolated. It will readily be understood that as soon as the liquid in the receptacle 8 commences to pass out its surface will be lowered, thus causing the air contained in the receptacle above it to expand, whereby its pressure will be so reduced that unless compensated for the pressure of the air from below will soon stop the flow of the liquid. This difficulty is overcome and an equilibrium in the pressure of the air above and below the liquid maintained by means of the tube 14, which is of sufficient length to reach above the surface of the liquid, and thus afford a free communication between the chamber 7 and the air above the liquid in the receptacle 8. From this it results that there is no pressure from below to resist the flow of the liquid and prevent it from passing freely downward to mingle with the water, the rapidity of its down- 1 ward flow being governed by the position of the valve 15. As before stated, the chamber 7 should be as large as or somewhat larger than the receptacle 8, so that sufficient air can pass from it to fill said receptacle without permitting the water to lise above the valveseat 13.

It is to be remarked that it is not necessaryv that the tube 14 should be upon the interior of the receptacle 8. It may be upon the outside and so located as to pass through the walls of the chamber 7 and the receptacle 8 above the surface of the liquid in the latter.

In Fig. 2 the invention is shown as embodied in a different form and used in connection with an ordinary stationary wash-bowl, as 25,

so as to form an inhaling as well as a vaporizing apparatus. In this case the air'ehamber 7, instead of being placed above the receptacle 2, is located at one side, the two being connected by a short pipe, 20. The apparatus thus organized is supported in any convenient position near the wash-bowl, and the perforated pipe 3, bent to an annular form, is, by any convenient form of bearing, as 21, loosely supported in orjust above the bowl. In this case the hot-water spigot 22 is connected by a flexible pipe, 23, with the air-chamber 7, and the perforated pipe 3, by a like pipe, 24:, is connected with the receptacle 2. The parts being thus connected and the spigot 22 turned so as to allow the hot water to fiow, the operation of the apparatus will be the same as already set forth in connection with Fig. 1.

When it is desired to inhale; the vapor the bowl will be provided with a cover, 26, having a suitably-shaped aperture, 27, above which the patientcan hold his face, so as to draw the vapor into his mouth or nostrils. If it should at any time be desired to medicate water for bathing with any substance, it can be readily done with this apparatus by connecting the pipe 23 to the hot or cold spigot, according to which is desired, and disconnecting the pipe 24c from the pipe 3, so as to allow the water to run freely into the bowl or tub.

If it is desired to arrange the apparatus so that it can be used independently of the spigots, it can be done by connecting the hot and cold water pipes by a cross-pipe, as28, controlled by cocks, as 29, and provided with a branch, as 30, all as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to which the pipe 23 can be connected.

The pipe 3 may, if desired, be permanently attached to the bowl by a series, of brackets,

'31, as shown in Fig. 5.

When the production ofvapor for disinfecting purposes is all that is desired the position of the pipe 3 is not material. One convenient position is that shown in Fig. 3, in which itis shown as IGlIlOVGdfIOlD the bowl and supported upon brackets. When in this position it can be also used for administering a shower or spray bath. When the pipe 3 is so located that its drippings cannot be caught by the wash-bowl or bath-tub it will of course be necessary to provide a suitable trough or dish for that purpose.

In the structure shown in Fig. 3 the valve and valve rod 15 16 are dispensed with and a stop-cock is used to control the passage between the air-chamber 7 and theliquid'receptacle 8 to regulate the feed of the liquid.

The feeding apparatus herein shown and described will also be found well adapted for many other purposes when it is required to feed a liquid against the pressure of aliquid ora gasas, for example, in supplying oil to the pistons and valves of pumps, engines, 850., against the pressure of the steam.

What I claim is-- 1. The combination,with the closed liquidreceptaclc S, of the air-chamber 7, of a size substantially equal to or greater than that of the liquid-receptacle, the two being connected by a passage, as described, and a pipe, as 14, affording free communication between the lat ter and the air above the liquid in the former, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the closed liquidreceptacle 8, of the air-chamber 7, ofa size substantially equal to or greater than that of the liquid-receptacle, the pipe, as 14, connecting the latter with the former at a point above the surface of the liquid, and means for regulating the flow of the liquid, substantially as described.

3. The combination,with the induction-pipe 1 and the perforated discharge-pipe 3, of the medicating apparatus, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the induction-pipe and the perforated dischargeqiiipe, of the medicating apparatus, consisting of the receptacle 2, the air-chamber 7, and the liquid-rece iitacle 8, and their connections, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the induction-pipe and the perforated discharge-pipe, of the medicating apparatus, substantially such' as described, and the receptacle for receiving the drippings from said perforated dischargepipe, provided with a cover, as 26, having an opening, as 27, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. W. ROSENFIELD.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY N. J ASBERA, COLERIDGE A. HART. 

